Creative Quotations from . . .
W. H. Auden
(1907-1973) born on
Feb 21
English-US "poet, dramatist, editor". "He wrote passionately about social problems and post-WW I anxiety; won Pulitzer for verse "Age of Anxiety," 1948."
 
   
F
Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction.

R
"No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games."
A
"Poetry makes nothing happen, it survives
In the valley of its saying."
N
"Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading."
K
No hero is mortal till he dies.
 
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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "A Certain World.""
R: "The Dyer's Hand, pt. 7, "Dingly Dell & The Fleet" (1962)."
A: "In Memory of W. B. Yeats.""
N: "The Dyer's Hand, pt. 3, "Hic et Ille," sct. A (1962)."
K: 'A Short Ode to a Philologist'
   



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